A lot of HOT projects are in Africa and they ask for buildings. Often when I validate on them I see a fair number of buildings mapped but not tagged correctly. I'm not saying that all the area=yes untags are from HOT mapping but a lot of it is in areas where HOT has projects.
Recently I loaded up a couple of African countries in JOSM. Recently I've tagged more than a thousand untagged ways mainly highways. So there are a lot more highways showing on the map. Untagged means they don't show. Many HOT projects seem to like buildings. These are buildings that are already there but untagged. It's a quick way to add lots of buildings. The other side of the coin is I think there is a responsibility to clean up as many of the mappers are registered in HOT. Yes we are part of OSM but some of the mapping done leaves a little to be desired. It's only when you load up a big chunk that you see just how many there are. Validation often isn't happening or its done by inexperienced mappers. Cheerio John On 16 October 2016 at 10:28, Augustin <xh...@mykolab.com> wrote: > Hi > > I don't understand the link between your mail subject "Help wanted > cleaning up in Africa, needs JOSM and Todo plugin" and the Humanitarian > OpenStreetMap Team Mailing list. Maybe there is a context linked to > specific countries and a lot of mistakes related to a previous activation, > which could explain the link with HOT, if so please explain it. If not, > this email should be posted on the related-countries mailing lists in > appropriates languages. > Have a good day from Bouaké, > > Augustin > Le 16/10/2016 à 13:05, john whelan a écrit : > > There are thousands of untagged ways marked area=yes. Most are buildings. > > The process for cleaning up is grab a country from > > http://download.geofabrik.de/africa.html > > use osmconvert64 to convert it into .osm format > > osmconvert64 G:\maps\niger-latest.osm.pbf -o=f:\maps\niger.osm > > you may need to select an area within this to make it small enough to fit > into JOSM. > > osmconvert64 f:\maps\nig.osm -b=8.8416511,4.284668,14.2430869,15.6884766 > -o=nig1.osm > > start JOSM with lots of memory this is 8 gigs. > > java -Xmx8210000000 -jar G:\josm\josm-tested.jar > > Load up the local file into 64 bit JOSM. > > Go to Edit, Preferences, validator, and untick everything except untagged, > empty and one node ways. This is purely for speed. > > Validate, select the untagged ways, search in them for area=yes and add > them to the todo list. Tag them. > > Cheerio John > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing > listHOT@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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